Q is for Quentin Tarantino

This guy might have the weirdest mind in the entire world. At least in Hollywood, that's for certain. In 2007 Total Film named him the 12th best director of all time. For his two most successful movies, he has been nominated for 15 Oscars, and won 3. He has directed, wrote, produced, and acted in films. He is known for his nonlinear storylines, and exaggeration of violence in his movies. This man's name is Quentin Tarantino.
Tarantino was born in 1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee. He was raised by his mother, as his parents were separated before he was born. He moved to Torrance, California a few years later, and took drama classes at his local high school until he dropped out at age 17 so he could go to an acting school full-time. When he was at acting school, he decided to quit his acting career to become a director, because he respected them more. He has no children and is not married and says that he would not consider marrying or having children before the age of 60, when he says he will retire.
He is one of the people that you either like or hate. Many people don't like him because they think that he just copies other peoples ideas, and changes them just enough so that they are his own. I have only noticed this in one of his movies, Kill Bill, which was almost word-for-word copied from a Japanese Chanbera film. Personally, I don't think he copies other people's ideas, but instead mixes many ideas, and puts them together as one. Many more people love his work because of his weird mind. Only Tim Burton can rival his odd movies. Take any one of his many movies, and just look at them. They never lack a plot ( some movies have NO plot and just try to win you over with their affects like Transformers ) but they still have loads of great affects and good amounts of action.
But the main reason why people either love or hate him is the incredible amounts of violence and how over-the-top they are. Look at Inglorious B*****s for example. There is two main scenes that stick out because of their over-the-top violence and how only Quentin could make a movie like that. One is when Brad Pitt & Co. ambush a German patrol squad. They kill all of them in gruesome ways, but not before a 5-minute side-story where they show how one of Pitt's men became one of them. The other part is when they lock the entire Third-Reich in one room and kill all of them, with a movie of a evil-laughing person in the background as the entire room on fire.
That is Quentin for you. A sick-minded director who makes the most violent, odd, but sometimes funniest movies out there. He will make you laugh, or cringe and you will always have to finish his films when you start them.

Sometimes it is hard to believe how messed-up some minds are.

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